“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”
Leonardo da Vinci (verified)
“Most problems in real life are poorly understood, in that the real problem is often something different from what it is orginally thought to be.”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Above all, I did not allow anything to be done which I did not myself understand. It worked!”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“Computer programming is like doing crossword puzzles, and being paid for it”
— Tony Hoare (verified)“Since then I never pay any attention to anything by experts. I calculate everything myself.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could he educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.”
— Richard Feynman (verified)“Understanding is a two-way street.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (unverified)“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (unverified)“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie (unverified)